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Submit contact information, artwork details, artist statement (max 100 words), biography (max 100 words), and up to 4 sample images for an international online group exhibition exploring marks of use, wear, repetition, and time on objects and materials.
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Get matched →CISTA ARTS invites artists to submit work for Signs of Use, an international online group exhibition exploring the marks left by touch, labour, repetition, habitation and time on objects, materials, and environments.
Nothing that is used remains unchanged. Surfaces become worn, objects acquire marks, materials soften, structures are repaired, and spaces gradually record movements of inhabitants. The exhibition looks at wear as evidence of labour, routine, intimacy, consumption, care, movement and lived experience. Artists may respond through personal, social, environmental, political or material perspectives, engaging with domestic objects, bodily experience, labour, textiles, architecture, tools, consumption, repair, decay, reuse, ritual, or the physical processes of making.
The call is open to artists internationally and at all stages of their careers. Both existing and newly created works are welcome, provided they engage meaningfully with the exhibition theme.
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Based in London, CISTA ARTS is an independent, artist-led curatorial platform dedicated to inclusive programming, cross-cultural dialogue, and supporting underrepresented voices in contemporary visual art. Since 2018, the organization has arranged over 50 solo and group exhibitions, both online and in hybrid formats. The online exhibitions attract between 1,200–1,800 unique visitors, and the website receives more than 4,000 visits per month. CISTA ARTS currently has over 12.2K Instagram followers, a Facebook audience, and a mailing list of over 2K subscribers.